Flora of North America species comparison

loosely white-tomentose, not glandular.

(erect) gray-tomentose, glabrescent, stipitate-glandular beneath tomentum.

blades (crowded, internodes 1–5, sometimes to 10 mm) narrowly obovate to subspatulate, 1–3(–6) cm × 2–8 mm (distal smaller, oblanceolate to narrowly oblong or linear), bases subclasping, usually decurrent 1–2 mm, margins weakly revolute, faces mostly concolor to weakly bicolor, abaxial gray-tomentose, adaxial usually gray-tomentose, sometimes glabrescent, neither glandular.

blades linear to lanceolate, oblong, or narrowly spatulate, (1–)3–7 cm × 3–5(–7) mm, bases not clasping, decurrent 2–10 mm, margins revolute and closely undulate, faces concolor, greenish, loosely tomentose, stipitate-glandular.

broadly campanulate, 3–4 mm.

turbinate to short-cylindric, 5–6 mm.

135–160.

38–62.

5–10 (corollas red-tipped).

2–7.

in 3–4 series, silvery gray to yellowish (hyaline), ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous.

in 4–5 series, usually pinkish, sometimes white or greenish (hyaline, dull), ovate to ovate-oblong, loosely tomentose (bases).

in terminal glomerules (1–2 cm diam.).

usually in paniculiform (broadly columnar or at least as long as broad, sometimes pyramidal) arrays.

not evidently ridged (conspicuously dotted with whitish, papilliform hairs; pappus bristles loosely coherent basally, released in clusters or easily fragmented rings).

ridged, smooth.

= 14, 16, 28.

= 28.